"Look Babe, I Bought This New iPod For Working Out at the Gym"

Yep, that's what my husband told me today as he was showing me this new little tiny iPod that's about the size of a quarter. Apparently it holds 1,000 songs, which is more than our other two iPods and its so much smaller and lighter so it was a "must-buy" for him, and it has this amazing magic power to make its owner put on gym clothes and head to the gym! Yes, I'm thinking that a new diamond ring has that power too...what do you think ladies? My husband hasn't worked out for about 3 months...he's one of those lucky people that has a great body all the time, no matter how many bowls of ice cream he eats in bed. He's got great genes and lucky for the kids they got some of his genes. It doesn't drive me nuts that my husband is like a girl when it comes to shopping, or that he has to have the latest and greatest and newest of gadgets galore, or that he has two and three of everything, or that he's obsessed with Costco...what drives me nuts is that he actually comes up with "reasons" for his spending and can almost have a straight face when he gives me his line of BS. Along with the iPod, he also purchased a new pair of tennis shoes for that gym place that he thinks he might visit. I wonder if everyone else at the gym knows how heavy their iPod is? Can you just see them now...trying to run on the treadmill with that HUGE 3"x 2" iPod hanging on their arm or their waist when they could have a tiny tiny magic iPod? Wait til they find out that they don't have to lug that thing around...I bet they will go to the gym even more when they get one too. When it comes to myself however, well, if it weren't for my husband constantly bringing me home new cell phones to try, I would probably still own first one from over 10 years ago that weighed like 5 pounds. I'd still be carrying a really large purse to hold the phone and it would only have one ring tone which would drive my kids nuts that they couldn't pull a funny one on me and change the ring to Livin' La Vida Loca and of course, nobody would want to borrow my phone for fear that they would be seen with it by their cool friends, who all have their own cell phones by the way and I get to hear that complaint on a daily basis but I'm not backing down on that one, but hey, it would still work and I get very attached to things so leave me alone.